Paper “Policies and Practices of (Non)involvement: Tajikistan, its Labour Emigrants and “Diaspora(s)”, European Research Council project seminar “Overseas Citizens”, University of Amsterdam, 21-22 September 2015.

Paper “Unequal Governors: States, International Organisations and NGOs as Governors of Migration in Central Asia and Beyond”, British International Studies Association Annual Conference 2015, London, 17-19 June 2015.

Paper “A Reluctant Governor? The EU and Migration Governance in Central Asia”, Jean Monnet Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Union conference “Security in the European Union and its Neighbourhood: Challenges and Policy Responses”, University of Dundee, United Kingdom, 15-16 June 2015.

Section chair, “Different Perspectives on Migrants’ Integration”, conference “Reframing the Migration Debate”, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, 12 June 2015.

“Self-Legitimation through Knowledge Production and Partnerships: International Organizations as Migration Governors in Central Asia”, workshop “The Quest for Legitimacy in World Politics – International Organizations’ Self-Legitimations”, the 43rd ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, Warsaw, 29 March – 2 April 2015.

Paper “Reinvention of migration governance by international organisations: the case of Central Asia”, conference “Social mobilisations and geopolitics in Central Asia”, co-organised by the French Institute for Central Asian Studies and Sciences Po, Paris, 14-15 October 2014.

Paper “International Organisations in the Absence of a Global Migration Regime: Towards Governor-Centred Research on Global Migration Governance”, European Consortium for Political Research 8th General Conference, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 3-6 September 2014.

Section chair, “Contemporary Security Challenges”, European Consortium for Political Research 8th General Conference, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 3-6 September 2014.

Paper “International Organizations in the Absence of a Global Migration Regime: Towards Governor-Centred Research on Global Migration Governance”, XV April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, 1-4 April 2014.

Paper “Migration Governance in the Post-Soviet Space: International Organisations and the Use of Knowledge”, Society for Applied Anthropology annual conference, Albuquerque (USA), 18-22 March, 2014.

Paper “The role of knowledge and partnerships in the EU action against human trafficking in the post-Soviet space” (co-authored by Andrey Leonov), Council for European Studies annual conference, Washington D.C. (USA), 14-16 March, 2014.

Paper “The EU and Internationalisation of Migration Policy-Making in the Post-Soviet Region”, Faculty of Social Sciences Migration Research Group Launch – International Symposium “Patterns and Pathways in European Union Migration and Mobility since 2004”, University of Sheffield, 31 January 2014.

Research report “Overcoming Borders: On Visa Facilitation and Liberalization Report of the EU-Russia Civil Society Forum” (together with Prof. Peter Van Elsuwege), Open Discussion, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, 5 November 2013.

Paper “International Organisations in the Absence of a Global Migration Regime: Role of the EU”, UACES annual conference, Leeds (UK), 2-4 September 2013.

Paper “The European Union and International Migration Governance in Central Asia”, 20th International Conference of Europeanists “Crisis and Contingency: States of (In)stability”, Amsterdam, 25-27 June 2013.